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Lazy, impersonal, or just don’t give a damn?

Posted on February 8, 2011 by in Rants

Leasing agents are super predictable: they tell you everything you want to hear to get you to lease the place, including (most likely) lies about the elusive ‘other very interested couple’. You go for it, even though they don’t show the place after 5pm, so you have no idea what it’s like to be living […]

Some things you just can’t recreate/replicate

Posted on February 4, 2011 by in Experimenting, Food

This should be a category for my failed attempts to capture cooked/non-vegan food. This time, I’ll bring you raw cauliflower popcorn. I found the recipe linked to by someone on my sproutpeople yahoo groups, and based on their raves and the comments of that blog post I gave it a try. I happened to have all […]

Plastic or… metal?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by in Musings

Somewhat food-related… actually, very much so, as it has to do with eating. Ever since I was little, I couldn’t stand the taste of silverware in my mouth. The worse was my grandparents’ aluminum forks and spoons that just made me gag every time they touched my lips or tongue. Stainless steel is somewhat better, […]

Raw broccoli soup, or what the heck was I thinking!

Posted on February 3, 2011 by in Disasters, Experimenting, Food

As much as a stickler to rules I am in real life (rules are good, mmmkay?), I don’t follow them in cooking. Recipes merely serve as a guideline, on which I build my creativity, due to lack of ingredients or patience or having different tastes. The only time I’m sticking to it word by word […]